The Night Life.

Disclaimer: Some characters belong to Stephanie Meyer.

Ch. 2

We arrived in California about two days ago. I finished my Roman Empire book before we left New Orleans now I was on Native Americans. Interesting subject. They seem to have billions of old stories and legends. Many about wolves, I liked wolves they were fun. A few years ago we ran into a pack in Canada, I being bored at the time thought it would be fun to mess with one. Well I was right, it was fun for me any ways. The wolf didn't like it so much, and I ended up killing it and sucking it dry. Kel just watched with an amused look on his face. Sometimes I acted like a little kid; I mean I was frozen at eighteen from now till the earth is destroyed.

I was turned when I was on summer vacation in Italy. I was in Rome. I got a fake ID and went to a night club. They let me in and I met this girl. She was the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen before. She actually talked to me and later on she talked me into going to her apartment. Bad idea, but I went and there she attacked me and turned me. A week later when I finally came back around she was gone and a man took her place. He explained to me what was going on and also said that killing humans wasn't the only answer. He saw how the idea repulsed me so he told me about a man and his son living in America at the moment. They fed off animals and seemed to be able to be around humans and not kill them.

I liked the idea immediately and he could tell so he told me what they did and where to find them. I went to them but they were in the middle of changing a young woman who had jumped off a cliff. The oldest of them told me more about the whole controlling the thirst, I was glad. His name was Carlisle; he had found his soul mate, Esme. I left them and a few years later found Kelvin. He was new to the whole idea of feeding off animals but he like the idea more than the alternative, humans.

So we were now in California. Kel and I went to a night club. This one had better music in my opinion, rock. Even if I did grow up in the middle of the 1800's, more like late 1800's and early 1900's. If I remember correctly, I was born around 1890 something and I was turned in 1912 I think. Kel was born in 1690 and turned in 1715, he was twenty- five. Anyway rock was ten times better than any of the stuff I grew up with, make that a hundred times better.

I was happy, I forgot all about Abby. I even met a girl. No vampire but she wanted to dance with me. I had so much fun it wasn't even funny. Kel just sat there like always and he was the one who wanted a girl. Jeez he was always talking like he was a thing to behold when it came to women.

He was shorter than me by like four inches. He had that I'm hot and I know it kind of attitude but he never acted arrogant. He was the gentle sort. Girls would say he's muscular but he wasn't as strongly built as me. I had muscles to spare. I was Six- four, and broad-shouldered. Some people were scared of me but I didn't care. Well sometimes I did. I wouldn't hurt no one on purpose unless they attacked me first.

We went to another club and this time Kel met a girl, but she was a vampire. She had long black hair that went to her butt. She wore jeans and a red dress that even I could tell was just one size too small for her. She was a few inches shorter than Kel and her golden eyes said she had a diet similar to ours. Her name was Stella. Kel was in love the second she said "hi."

Man, could this get any worse. Obviously it could. I was now alone. Well not really, she was coming with us. It would be the three of us instead of two bachelors.

Stella wanted to go up to Nome, Alaska. So we headed that way, but I decided to make a side trip to see if Abby was still with the Cullens. Kel had other ideas and would let me stop at Seattle to find out. Grrrrrrr.

We were walking in the forest close to the town of Forks, Washington. Kel and Stella laughing at some joke that Kel had told. Truthfully it wasn't that funny. I sudden smelled Vampires. Kel smelled them too, but they weren't alone some other strange scent accompanied them.

A giant wolf walked into the clearing we stopped in and growled. Then vampires came out of the forest. One I thought I recognized but I couldn't be sure. There were nine of them. One was as big and burly as me. He grinned.

"No Emmett. They're friends," the bronze haired one that I thought I knew.

"Awwww man. Come on. I so wanted to take the big one."

"Emmett it wouldn't be fair. There's so many of us."

"Yeah plus there's me and wolf boy here," a voice called from somewhere on top to the giant wolf. The wolf barked a laugh.

"Sorry we were just passing through on our way to Nome," Stella said.

"Don't be silly," the girl said who appeared to be sitting on the wolf. "We won't hurt you and your precious. We were just out walking." She looked at me and smiled.

"Do you know them Abby," the bronze haired one asked.

"Know them? Oh Edward, these are the ones I was telling you about. The ones from New Orleans."

"Oh really," the girl beside the one called Edward asked.

"Edward," I asked confused. That was Carlisle's son's name.

"Yes, I'm Carlisle's son. If I remember correctly you were the one to ask him about our diet."

"Yes that's right. A long time ago."

"Yes it was Jeff. We had Esme to deal with. Sorry to have been so busy. I see you have found a few friends since then."

"Yeah. This is Kelvin and Stella." Emmett laughed.

"This is my wife Bella, our daughter Renesme but we call her Nessie for short. That's Emmett and his wife Rosalie. Alice and Jasper. And the wolf is Jacob; he's my daughter's friend. And Bella's best friend besides me, and of course you know Abby," Edward said.

"Nice to meet y'all," I said in my southern drawl. I grew up in the south. Abby jumped down from where she sat and walked over to Stella and gave her a hug.

"Hi Kel. Glad you found someone so pretty to love."

"Thanks Abby. Stella and me were headed to Nome. We better go. It was nice to see you again." They started to walk away.

"Please stay awhile. I would love to hear about how you met."

"Ok," Stella answered.

We followed the Cullens and the wolf back to a white house the size of a castle. Well at least it looked like it to me, but I've never seen a castle except on TV.